Projected Sustainability of Innovative Social Programs
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This study is an exploratory examination of the projected sustainability of more than 100 projects funded by the Australian government. Using data collected by the body that evaluated the projects and data from a government database, it examines the predictors of various forms of sustainability. Findings show that some two thirds of the project leaders who expected their programs to continue after the expiration of the initial funding expected them to continue with the same activities and target population; almost half envisioned them diversifying to new activities, target groups, or locations. Auspice organization involvement increased the expectation that the project would be continued, project effectiveness decreased that expectation, and diversity of initial funding became less important as other sources of support and sustainability were taken into consideration.
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The ability of an initiative to share resources with partners and other organisations, seek out alternative and supplemental resources and/or uncover multiple funding sources were highlighted across some approaches as important to overall sustainability.
“The ability of an initiative to share resources with partners and other organisations [41, 46], seek out alternative and supplemental resources [18, 47–49] and/or uncover multiple funding sources [8, 36, 49, 50] were also highlighted across some approaches as important to overall sustainability.”
From Navigating the sustainability landscape: a systematic review of sustainability approaches in healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [49]
Involved and committed leaders can help facilitate sustainability.
“Involved and committed leaders can help facilitate sustainability [38-40].”
From Successful Organizational Strategies to Sustain Use of A-CHESS: A Mobile Intervention for Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorders (2015) · cites this paper as [40]
Effectively engaging staff, and in our case, clients, establishes a sense of empowerment that they are a part of the change process, enhances staff motivation to participate in the change process, and leads to more actionable steps by staff to promote sustainment of the change.
“Effectively engaging staff, and in our case, clients, establishes a sense of empowerment that they are a part of the change process, enhances staff motivation to participate in the change process, and leads to more actionable steps by staff to promote sustainment of the change [40,44-48].”
From Successful Organizational Strategies to Sustain Use of A-CHESS: A Mobile Intervention for Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorders (2015) · cites this paper as [40]
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- Authors
- Savaya, R., Elsworth, G., & Rogers, P.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- RMIT University (AU)
- Venue
- Evaluation Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-08-15
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 189-205
- ISSN
- 0145-4692 (ISSN-L)
- 0193-841X
- 1552-3926
- OpenAlex
- W1998826382
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 3.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evaluation Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Community Development and Social Impact
- Keywords
- program sustainability, social programs, project leaders, program diversification, program effectiveness, funding diversification, nonprofit organizations, program evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Australia, Diffusion of Innovation, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Social Work, Program Evaluation, Multivariate Analysis, Databases, Factual
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